Hull City vice-chairman Ehab Allam has denied that the Tigers are a selling club, having rejected a £10million offer from West Brom for Jake Livermore and another offer from West Ham for Robert Snodgrass.

The Tigers rejected two bids for Snodgrass last week from the Hammers and have triggered a clause in his contract - which had been set to expire at the end of the season - keeping him at the club until 2018.

However, the London club have returned with a £6million bid for the Scot - again turned down as it remains some way below their valuation.

Livermore has emerged as West Brom's No.1 target, after they missed out on Morgan Schneiderlin, who elected to join Everton.

But Allam says that they club have “no appetite” to sell their most important players and are instead looking to strengthen this month.

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Nevertheless, he acknowledges that every player has a price and that they will sell, if it enables them to use the money to improve the squad elsewhere.

“We have never been a selling club under our ownership. Look at the last six years, we have been a buying club and not a selling one,” he told the Yorkshire Post.

“There is no appetite to sell players. They are our best assets and we are in a survival fight. We do not want to weaken the team and we are focused on making additions.

“Having said that, everything and everyone has its price. And you can’t hold people to ransom and say: ‘You are not leaving, regardless’. It is also true that we need everyone pulling in the same direction if we are to win this survival fight.

“There is no appetite to sell but if we do then the price would have to reflect that we are fighting for survival and do not need to sell.”

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Hull's win moved them off the bottom of the table to 18th, level on points with Crystal Palace in 17th. Silva has been backed in the transfer market also, signing Evandro and Oumar Niasse, the latter on loan from Everton.

Silva's men head to league leaders Chelsea on Sunday, as they continue their survival fight.